Brainerd (David)
An Abridgment [sic] of Mr. David Brainerd's Journal among the Indians.
Or, the Rise and Progress of a remarkable Work of Grace among a Number of the Indians. In the Provinces of New-Jersey and Pensylvania [sic]... To which is prefix'd a dedication to [the Honourable Society in Scotland for propagating Christian Knowledge], by P. Doddridge.
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some thumbing, one headline cut close but without loss, small hole in G1 with the loss of a letter on either side, last line of last page cropped, but sense recoverable,
pp. [2], vi, [3]-110, [4], 12mo,
original sheep, rebacked, solidly if not beautifully, spine lettered in gilt, extremities worn, early ownership inscriptions front and back,
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Printed for John Oswald; and sold by John Trail, and other Booksellers in Edinburgh, 1748
Notes: First English Edition, adapted from Mirabilia Dei inter Indicos, Philadelphia, 1746. Brainerd was a missionary to the American Indians in New York, New Jersey, and eastern Pennsylvania. Born in Connecticut in 1718, he was tubercular, dying of that disease at the age of twenty-nine, and from his youth was frail and sickly. He was expelled from Yale for criticising a professor and for sympathising with the Whitefield revival organisation known as "New Lights". He became a missionary beginning his ministry with the Indians in April, 1743, at Kaunaumeek, New York, and then in Crossweeksung and Cra...moreFirst English Edition, adapted from Mirabilia Dei inter Indicos, Philadelphia, 1746. Brainerd was a missionary to the American Indians in New York, New Jersey, and eastern Pennsylvania. Born in Connecticut in 1718, he was tubercular, dying of that disease at the age of twenty-nine, and from his youth was frail and sickly. He was expelled from Yale for criticising a professor and for sympathising with the Whitefield revival organisation known as "New Lights". He became a missionary beginning his ministry with the Indians in April, 1743, at Kaunaumeek, New York, and then in Crossweeksung and Cranberry (near Newark), New Jersey. After only four years as a missionary Brainerd died at the home of Jonathan Edwards, to whose daughter he was engaged to be married. 'His ministry to the Indians was contemporary with Wesley, Whitefield and Edwards as they ministered to the English-speaking people during the period called in English and American history, the "Great Awakening"'. Brainerd's centuries-spanning influence for revival is positive proof God can and will use any vessel, no matter how fragile and frail' (Barlow, Profiles in Evangelism). This early evangelical onslaught on the Native Americans, has a parallel in the Appendix, which comprises extracts from letters of Ebenezer Pemberton, Correspondent Member of the Society in New York. At the very end, we are reminded that the Society 'supports a great Number of Schools at home, in the Highlands and Isles adjacent' - the conversion among the Gaels of Scotland being equivalent (and the practice ground). This is even clearer in Doddridge's prefatory letter, addressed 'To the Honourable Society for propagating Christian Knowledge in the Highlands of Scotland, and in Popish and Infidel Parts of the World.' See Frederick V. Mills, Sr., The Society in Scotland for Propagating Christian Knowledge in British North America, 1730-1775, in Church History, Vol. 63, No. 1 (Mar., 1994), pp. 15-30. HIDE
Bibliography: (Sabin, 7339; Howes, B717; Felcone, 24; ESTC T105624)
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Published Date: 1748
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